Our Planet-Sized Fact (average global temperature change, 1895–2018, after Ed Hawkins), Andrew S. Yang

Climate scientist Ed Hawkins created #ShowYourStripes to communicate temperature change over the last more than 100 years. The warming stripes are intended to spark conversations about global warming by representing annual temperatures with minimal scientific information. These graphics are free to use. Yang has altered Hawkins’s original design, making it appear threedimensional so that the current high temperatures (on the far right end) face the viewer directly and with urgency. Yang installed these data in conversation with his interests in the Earth’s cycles and climate change. They speak to the stratigraphic layers on view throughout his installation Theory of the Earth, Volume IV. They also have meaningful connections to artist Assaf Evron’s reflections on how we choose to represent information and how those images might be repurposed.